[Cable & Deadpool] Good Intentions (4/?)
Really meant to have this up sooner - the finished draft has been done since the middle of June. It's kinda been one of those months.
Title: Good Intentions
Summary: Deadpool thought killing that 'Nathan' guy was going to be a fairly routine job. He couldn't have been more wrong.
Chapter: 4/?
Characters/Pairing: Cable/Deadpool, X-Force
Rating: NC- ( Read more... )
Title: Good Intentions
Summary: Deadpool thought killing that 'Nathan' guy was going to be a fairly routine job. He couldn't have been more wrong.
Chapter: 4/?
Characters/Pairing: Cable/Deadpool, X-Force
Rating: NC- ( Read more... )
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A bit less of the two boys interacting this chapter but it's such a great, and convincing, AU that I don't mind too much. I'm honestly gripped. Great characterisation all round, too.
Yay, thanks! =D There's not going to be that much of them interacting in the next chapter either, I'm afraid, but sometimes that's what you get when you hit the plotty bits.
Because I RP Cable and I had a similar thing where I loved the character in his C&D days and then I read the old stuff later and suddenly he's just not very interesting.
I did that in reverse - I had just enough passing familiarity with his old stuff to know it by reputation, and so was hugely surprised when I liked the C&DP version so much.
the later Fabian versionTechnically they're both the Fabian version, since Nicieza was writing for him way back through a lot of his X-Force days too. But back then Liefeld was allowed to do most of ( ... )
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Technically they're both the Fabian version, since Nicieza was writing for him way back through a lot of his X-Force days too.
Sure, I put that badly. I meant the later Fabian version as opposed to the earlier Fabian version. Because, with all due respect to the likes of Loeb and Liefeld (and Simonson for that matter), he wrote a lot of the defining stuff. And its the contrast between his early 90s Cable and his late 2000s Cable thats the most striking. Not the least because its, at least meant to be, the same writer.
He's absolutely not at his best in the early X-Force issues: he'd lost both his wife and son and there are a lot of hints that he'd done his best to shut himself down emotionally to cope, to the point of falling into a 'the end justifies the means (even if the means involves ( ... )
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You know, I hadn't thought about it that way, but I think you have a good point there. He's still flying very close to the moral borderline in D&DP (see esp: all the times he lies to people to manipulate them one way or another, the Apocalypse stunt, etc), he just manages to make you notice it a little less because his overall goals have shifted more to encouraging world peace than crushing the world's enemies. (And because his methods have shifted more towards letting Deadpool shoot him in the head than him shooting someone else.)
It's just he's moved from being ruthless, manipulative and cold to ruthless, manipulative and warm.Mm, well put. It's a crying shame Cable got stolen by another series and killed off, I feel like they never got very far at all into exploring the implications of all ( ... )
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Anyway, the story so far is still abosultely awesome. And I still wan't to hug Wade and keep on hugging him.
I like Vanessa's pov. I never could make my mind up about her, half the time I like her and half the time I just think she's annoying. I still don't know how I feel about her here, but I do like the way you wrote her pov. And I do feel a bit sorry for her, becuase she really does care for Nate and she is caught in a shitty situation. And yeah, she isn't exactly wrong about Deadpool.
Seeing the rest of X-force was nice. Honestly I thought I'd just think they were distracting me from the Nate/Wade-ness, but I really liked seeing them. And the end... oh... okay, so it has me all antsy for more, but Deadpool and Cable and... I'm just going to sit here with hearts in my eyes for a while.
The only thing that has me a bit confused is that for the life of me I can't remember how much Cable knows about Toliver at this point. I fail. Again.
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Anyway, the story so far is still abosultely awesome. And I still wan't to hug Wade and keep on hugging him.
I was thinking I hadn't given Wade much of a role in this part, but I'm glad you enjoyed what screentime he got.
I like Vanessa's pov. I never could make my mind up about her, half the time I like her and half the time I just think she's annoying. I still don't know how I feel about her here, but I do like the way you wrote her pov. And I do feel a bit sorry for her, becuase she really does care for Nate and she is caught in a shitty situation. And yeah, she isn't exactly wrong about Deadpool.I do like her myself, though she's a bit inconsistently characterised (especially by certain later writers who's contributions I am still in denial about). There are a lot of hints in the comics that the shapeshifting thing really wasn't that healthy for her emotionally that never got ( ... )
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I also love the character analysiis that you guys are doing in the comments, I'm a sucker for that stuff.
Oh me too. And it may be still going.
I'm hoping I'll be able to get the next chapter up a little sooner, but it's going to be a tough one to write. Can't really promise any more smut for a while (we're right into the plot right now), but we'll see where it goes.
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